All
of us sends emails to our friends and buddies from our email id and
from our email they easily knows that we are sending them emails but
what if you send an email to your friend from your other friends email
id without knowing his password. Yes, it's possible their are some webs
and servers that allows you to send email using any email address and
you can easily send fake emails to your newbie friends who is just new
in internet or don't know what happens actually? Well there are mainly
two methods for sending fake emails,
- Sending Fake Email using Open Relay Server
- Sending Fake Email using Web Scripts
Sending Fake Email using Open Relay Server
An
open mail relay is a SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server
configured in such a way that it allows anyone on the Internet to send
Email through it, not just mail destined to or originating from known
users. An attacker can connect the Open Relay Server via Telnet and
instruct the server to send the Email. It requires no password to send
the Email.
Sending Fake Email using Web Scripts
Web
languages such as PHP and ASP contain the mail sending functions which
can be used to send Emails by programming Fake headers i.e. From: To:
Subject: There are so many websites available on the Internet which
already contains these mail sending scripts. Most of them provide the
free service, Some of them are:
- Fakesend.com
- Anonymailer.net
- Deadfake.com
- Fakemailer.net
- Fakemailer.info